Improvement in wood-planing machines



W. TUCKER; WOOD PLANING MACHINE.

Nb. 65,308. Patented May 28, 1867.

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WILLIAM TUCKER, OF PARIS, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 65,308, dated .May 28, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOOD-PLAN ING MACHINES.

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To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM TUCKER, of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Moulding Machine; and I hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

This invention relates to an arrangement of an' adjustable rotary planing-head, adapted to be changed instantaneously to either right or left-hand cutting to suit the grain or direction of the wood in any particular spot.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a machine embodying my invention as adapted to left-hand cutting.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same as adapted for right-hand cutting.

Figure 3 is a. longitudinal section of the machine as adapted to left-hand cutting.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the cutter-head detached.

A is a frame, surmounted by a bench or table, a, on which the stuffis laid, and having a vertical guide or way, B, for a. sliding head-block, C, in which is journalled the spindle D, of a cutter-head, E, which head is armed with one or more right-hand hits F, anda short distance below these with one or more precisely similar left-hand bits F. The cutting edges of these bits'may be of any form to correspond with the desired contour of the moulding to be worked with them. is a lever, pivoted to the frame at g, and connected by suitable rods, HIJ, to the sliding head-block, which lever being moved to the right, as in fig. 1, or to the left, as in fig. 2, serves to elevate or depress the head for either left or right-hand cutting. The lower end of the spinrlle D has a friction-pulley, K, which is made to revolve to the right or left by the alternate impact of one of the two respective disk-wheels L L, w ich revolve constantly in one direction, and are shifted laterally-by the above described movements of the lever G, through the instrumentality of an elastic arm, )1 The lever G is held to its extreme right and left positions by catches N N. Still another catch may be providerl immediately between the above to hold the lever to its intermediate or non-effective position. The nut 0 being unscrewed, the head E may be removed to be replaced by one of another form, or by a polishing-wheel.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- The arrangement of the double cutter-head E, and friction-pulleys- K L L, capable of being simultaneously shifted for right or left-hand cutting, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM TUCKER.

Witnesses GEO. DOLE, J. M. DURHAM. 

